Subject of Interest:
American Military University (AMU)
I didn’t write this paper just to point out failure. I wrote it because AMU’s failure, or success, if you ask AMU, matters. The university is responsible for educating future military, law enforcement, and security professionals, people who will have real power, real responsibilities, and real lives depending on them. Feeding those students spin instead of facts doesn’t just fail them, it fails the country they’re supposed to protect. It puts politics ahead of truth. It puts bias ahead of integrity. And it trains students to see only part of the threat while ignoring the rest. That’s not education. That’s indoctrination, as I mentioned many times.
AMU can either stay on this broken path, producing graduates who walk into the field unprepared to deal with the full scope of extremism and terrorism, or it can fix the problem and do what it claims to do: provide fair, rigorous, fact-based training. I’m not interested in empty words or vague promises about balance. I’m demanding action. Here’s how:
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Stop teaching ideology. Start teaching facts
- Replace biased readings and outdated reading material with real data that covers all forms of extremism and terrorism: right-wing, left-wing, Islamist, BLM, anarchist, eco-terrorist, and beyond.
- Stop cherry-picking reading material that fit the department chair’s personal views. Present the full threat landscape, not just the parts AMU leadership hates.
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Overhaul course content
- Update all courses with current threat data, not Cold War, post-9/11, or early 2000s leftovers. If it happened in the last 5 years, it belongs in the classroom too.
- Teach cases like January 6, McVeigh, but stop pretending they’re the whole story. Include 2020 and 2025 left-wing violence, Antifa attacks, eco-terrorist bombings, BLM violence, and more. If you’re going to teach terrorism, teach all terrorism.
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Replace selective definitions with clear, universal ones
- Define terrorism as what it is: violence or threat of violence for political, social, or religious goals. Apply that definition to every group, no exceptions, no excuses, no spin.
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Audit and purge ideological bias at the leadership level
- Appoint an external review board to audit AMU’s counter-terrorism and security curriculum for ideological bias.
- Require department leaders and course designers to account for why certain threats are included or excluded. If the material is selective by design, change the leadership.
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Replace biased leadership with professionals who are fair and apolitical
- AMU’s counter-terrorism and security programs need leaders who serve students, not their own political agendas. Replace department chairs and curriculum designers who push bias with leaders who focus on facts, threats, and reality.
- Make sure those in charge have no public record of using their positions to attack groups they disagree with. AMU needs professionals who lead with integrity, not with hate. I can help with this area. I already have an impressive list and over three terabytes of evidence.
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Open the classroom to true debate
- Allow students to choose any group for analysis: right, left, Islamist, or otherwise, without punishment or censorship.
- Stop blocking students from analyzing groups like BLM or Antifa. If AMU allows assignments on Neo-Nazis, Atomwaffen, and The Base, it can handle criticism of left-wing extremists.
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Teach fairness, not balance
- Balance is a meaningless buzzword that gets weaponized to excuse bias. What matters is fairness. Present the facts, let students think critically, and stop trying to steer their conclusions. Balance is just another form of bias.
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End the double standards
- Stop labeling white or right-wing attackers as terrorists while calling left-wing or minority attackers disturbed, isolated, or marginalized. Violence is violence. Terrorism is terrorism. Call it what it is.
- Stop focusing only on what supposedly drives Islamist and left-wing terrorists, making excuses about marginalization, oppression, mental illness, or failure to assimilate, while slapping the white supremacist label on right-wing attackers without digging deeper. If you’re going to study motives, study everyone’s motives. No group deserves a pass.
- Train future professionals, not activists
Counter-terrorism and homeland security students need real-world preparation, not political indoctrination. AMU’s job is to train analysts, officers, and defenders of the nation, not agents of the Chair’s agenda. AMU students aren’t supposed to be ideological foot soldiers. They’re supposed to be professionals who protect all Americans from all threats. Even from AMU.
Final challenge to AMU
If AMU truly wants to serve the military, law enforcement, and homeland security communities, then prove it. Clean house. Replace biased and hate-filled leadership. Fix the curriculum. Deliver the education it claims to provide. Anything less is failure.
Click the links below for a breakdown of AMU’s counter-terrorism and homeland security curriculum. Each entry focuses on a specific course, pattern, or policy, exposing how bias undermines national security and professional training.
Why did you create Misleading by Design?
As a writer, I’ve experienced the joy of creating stories but also the frustration of navigating the publishing world. Behind the scenes, the process of marketing a book is filled with scams, schemes, and people looking to take advantage of authors. With over 30 years of experience in intelligence and investigations, I realized I could use those skills along with my writing background to help expose the bad actors in our industry and beyond. Misleading by Design is my way of fighting back.
Your projects seem all over the place. Why not just stick to one subject or theme?
At first glance, my projects might seem scattered. I write about ghost stories, spiritual preservation, investigative reporting, and even political analysis. But they all serve one purpose. Each one invites readers to interpret what they see based on their own beliefs, experiences, and instincts. That's the heart of Branching Plot Books. Whether it's a scroll sealed with a forgotten soul, a book that can be read multiple ways, or a report that exposes something hidden in plain sight, the goal is the same. I want readers to take an active role, to question the surface, and decide what they believe is real. The stories may differ, but the purpose is always connected.
What is Misleading by Design’s Briefing Room?
It’s an investigative blog that exposes political bias, fraud, scams, and manipulation in institutions that claim to educate or protect the public. That includes universities, publishing platforms, corporate programs, and anything else hiding an agenda behind a professional front.
Who runs this blog?
I do. Arthur Mills. I’m a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 and former All-Source Intelligence Technician with 31 years of experience in intelligence and investigations. I’ve tracked extremist threats, exposed political corruption, and led intelligence operations. I’ve seen what real indoctrination looks like, and I’m calling it out when I see it again. This time in classrooms and consumer markets.
Are you affiliated with any political group?
No. I don’t work for any party, PAC, campaign, or media outlet. I’m not here to push an agenda or play politics. I’m here to expose whoever’s lying, misrepresenting, or manipulating others, regardless of which side they’re on.
When I worked in the private sector, I conducted opposition research and tracked domestic extremist groups from across the political spectrum. I’ve investigated threats from both the left and the right. I don’t excuse violence, bias, or propaganda just because it aligns with one side’s agenda. If you're hiding your motives behind credentials, credentials behind ideology, or ideology behind fake neutrality, you're part of the problem. And you’ll show up here.
Why are you investigating food? What does this have to do with Branching Plot Books?
Because it’s the most common scam nobody talks about. Fast food chains show thick burgers and crisp fries in their ads, then hand you a flattened mess in a greasy bag. Grocery stores use packaging that promises quality but delivers bland, shriveled, or half-empty products. It’s manipulation through presentation. They sell the illusion, not the item.
And that’s the same trick used in education, politics, publishing, and everywhere else. If they can sell you a lie in a sandwich, they can sell it anywhere.
Misleading by Design fits the larger mission of Branching Plot Books by turning real-world scams into something the reader has to question, interpret, and investigate. Like my other projects, it doesn’t hand you answers. It gives you evidence, patterns, and contradictions, then dares you to put the pieces together. Whether it’s testimonies from the lost souls, curriculum bias, staged food ads, or publishing cons, the goal is the same: to make you rethink what you’ve been told and see how easily truth gets packaged, sold, and distorted.
What made you investigate American Military University?
Because it claims to train intelligence and homeland security professionals. What it’s actually doing is grooming students to think one way, speak one way, and ignore anything that doesn’t fit the school's left-wing agenda. That isn’t education. That's political indoctrination.
When I was tracking domestic extremist groups, I kept asking the same question. Where does this hate come from? What feeds it? I suspected the root was in their education. What they were taught. What they were not taught. That includes schools and universities. The slogans change, but the indoctrination is baked in.
After retiring from the military, I decided to get the formal education to match my experience. I chose a degree in Counter-Terrorism from American Military University. It promotes itself as a leader in intelligence, counter-terrorism, and homeland defense. It’s one of the largest programs of its kind. On paper, it looked like the right fit.
It wasn’t.
Course after course, it became clear that AMU wasn’t teaching students how to counter terrorism. It was teaching them how to adopt one worldview. How to view one side as the enemy. How to justify violence and extremism from the other. This wasn’t counter-terrorism. It was a curriculum on how to become a left-wing extremist.
I document everything. The entire report is published on The Briefing Room, in serialized form. I sent it to professors and top university officials. They ignored it. They didn’t defend their curriculum. They didn’t ask for clarification. They ignored me. They know I’m on to them.
That's why I’m staying in the program. I’m not there for the degree anymore. I don’t need it. I’m there to finish the investigation. American Military University has built a propaganda machine. And I plan to expose every part of it.
Do you accept tips or leads?
Yes. If you’ve seen something worth investigating, send it through my contact page. I check everything personally.
This includes curriculum bias at any level, from elementary schools to universities. If you’ve seen political agendas being pushed in grade school lesson plans, high school classrooms, college syllabi, or university programs, I want to hear about it. If you’ve dealt with fake credentials, unethical hiring, publishing fraud, corporate indoctrination, or institutional censorship, send it in. I follow evidence, not agendas.
If something feels off and you think no one else will touch it, send it anyway. I’ll look into it.
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